{"id":33164,"date":"2025-05-17T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33164\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T06:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T06:00:09","slug":"hornets-slug-their-way-to-victory-over-rockets-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/33164\/","title":{"rendered":"Hornets slug their way to victory over Rockets | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MT. STERLING, Ill. &#8212; Brown County erupted for an 11-run third inning on its way to a 17-13 win over Rushville-Industry on Friday in the Hornets regular season finale.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockets had a 4-3 lead before Brown County&#8217;s ambushed them with 11 runs in the bottom of the third. Rushville-Industry still kept chipping away afterwards, scoring multiple runs in three out of the four next innings.<\/p>\n<p>With the wind blowing, home runs were flying out of the ball park as Brown County had Matt Boylen and Maverick Henry go yard and Rushville-Industry had Josh Little power up for a blast.<\/p>\n<p>Boylen also got the win on the mound after starting the game and throwing three innings with four strikeouts, while allowing seven hits, no walks and four earned runs.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, Connor Flynn and Tyce Fullerton all pitched in relief for the Hornets.<\/p>\n<p>Henry went 3-for-4 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs, while Fullerton went 2-for-4 with a walk, RBI, three runs amd three stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p>Hornets leadoff hitter Collin Dieterle went 2-for-5 with an RBI and two runs, while Jack Buss went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs. Wyatt Kassing went 2-for-4 with a triple, two RBIs, a run and a stolen base.<\/p>\n<p>Rushville-Industry starting pitcher Bennett Fretueg went 2.2 innings with two strikeouts, while allowing nine hits, four walks and seven earned runs in the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Brown County (21-10) is the Class 1A Mendon Unity Regional semifinal game against the hosting Mustangs (12-12) at 6 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs closed out their regular season with an 18-0 win over Pleasant Hill Western on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT. STERLING, Ill. &#8212; Brown County erupted for an 11-run third inning on its way to a 17-13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,2351,5,2316,2323,2314,2317,2313,2331,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,2322,2307,2320,2327,2321,185,2324,2560,2311,2312,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-33164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-base-on-balls","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-baseball-competitions","13":"tag-baseball-events","14":"tag-baseball-finals","15":"tag-baseball-games","16":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","17":"tag-batting-order-baseball","18":"tag-home-run","19":"tag-major-league-baseball","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","23":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","24":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","25":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-mlb-playoffs","28":"tag-mlb-postseason","29":"tag-october-sporting-events","30":"tag-outdoor-sports","31":"tag-pitcher","32":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","33":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","34":"tag-sports","35":"tag-sports-events","36":"tag-stolen-base","37":"tag-team-sports","38":"tag-turf-sports","39":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}